Senior/Principal Energy Technical Consultant - Core Energy Advisory
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Your impact
At Jacobs, our Energy & Power team is focused on providing a whole system approach, offering end-to-end service to support our clients in energy networks, decarbonised & renewable generation and storage solutions. We are helping our clients to address the challenges and opportunities regarding decarbonisation/net zero issues specifically in relation to requirements for delivering the global energy transition.
A career at Jacobs means working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, solving complex challenges and undertake meaningful work that benefits our communities and the world. Grow your career at Jacobs, a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.
About The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Senior/Principal Energy Consultant with an engineering background to expand our team to help deliver continued growth in our services and greater value to our client’s requirements. In this role, you will manage and deliver a range of advisory services, and provide wider support enabling the growth and development of our team. A key element of this is being at the forefront of dynamic change, in terms of regulatory changes, best practice and guidance, technology development and translating this into real world solutions for the client.
The successful candidate will have a strong focus on delivering energy management, efficiency improvement and net-zero strategies. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of current and emerging energy systems, including their technical properties, economic viability, and environmental impacts. This can include low carbon generation, as well as energy storage technologies. You will also bring experience across public, industrial and commercial energy use; with a record of delivering energy savings, developing utility infrastructure, and driving emission reductions to support client’s decarbonisation objectives. We welcome applicants with diverse experience and perspectives, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
Key Responsibilities
The following skills and experience are desirable for this office based or hybrid working role
With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging. Find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain talent from a wide range of backgrounds. For greater online accessibility please visit https//www.vercida.com/uk/employers/jacobs to view and access our roles.
As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.
Your impact
At Jacobs, our Energy & Power team is focused on providing a whole system approach, offering end-to-end service to support our clients in energy networks, decarbonised & renewable generation and storage solutions. We are helping our clients to address the challenges and opportunities regarding decarbonisation/net zero issues specifically in relation to requirements for delivering the global energy transition.
A career at Jacobs means working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, solving complex challenges and undertake meaningful work that benefits our communities and the world. Grow your career at Jacobs, a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.
About The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Senior/Principal Energy Consultant with an engineering background to expand our team to help deliver continued growth in our services and greater value to our client’s requirements. In this role, you will manage and deliver a range of advisory services, and provide wider support enabling the growth and development of our team. A key element of this is being at the forefront of dynamic change, in terms of regulatory changes, best practice and guidance, technology development and translating this into real world solutions for the client.
The successful candidate will have a strong focus on delivering energy management, efficiency improvement and net-zero strategies. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of current and emerging energy systems, including their technical properties, economic viability, and environmental impacts. This can include low carbon generation, as well as energy storage technologies. You will also bring experience across public, industrial and commercial energy use; with a record of delivering energy savings, developing utility infrastructure, and driving emission reductions to support client’s decarbonisation objectives. We welcome applicants with diverse experience and perspectives, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Advisory
- Lead the technical development and delivery of energy projects, including development of energy centres with turbine, CHP, heat pumps, geothermal technology understandings.
- Manage inputs from multidisciplinary teams comprising discipline engineering specialists, environmental, and planning specialists
- Develop and review feasibility studies, optioneering assessments, business cases, and techno-economic analyses
- Provide technical leadership during concept design, pre-FEED and owners engineer through later lifecycle stages
- Ensure solutions are technically robust, economically viable, safety maintainable, and compliant with applicable legislation, standards, and industry best practice
- Support project governance, risk management, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement activities
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of engineering standards, processes, and best practices.
- Technical Innovation and Best Practices
- Identify and use technical tools to support project delivery and contribute to the development of best practices and standard methodologies.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements in energy sector.
- Input to thought leadership within Jacobs and externally.
- Client Management and Business Development
- Develop client relationships, leading progress meetings and presentations.
- Collaborate with our sales team and conduct other business development activities to grow the Core Energy portfolio and pipeline.
- Prepare compelling proposals to secure new business opportunities.
The following skills and experience are desirable for this office based or hybrid working role
- Demonstrable understanding of engineering safety principles and the integration of safety throughout project development and operation, including hazard identification, risk assessment, design risk management, HAZID, HAZOP, CDM compliance, process safety, operational safety, and the application of safe-by-design principles.
- Energy or engineering experience in industrial, manufacturing, water (or similar sites) with an understanding of utilities, major energy-consuming assets, operational constraints, and site-based working practices.
- Experience of, or a good working knowledge of, instrumentation, control and automation, including its role in process optimisation, asset performance, operational control, and energy-efficiency improvement.
- Minimum qualification of a relevant engineering degree or higher.
- Membership of, or working towards membership of, a recognised professional engineering institution, preferably Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to develop and manage work programmes, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage risks, and delegate responsibilities effectively.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to provide clear, evidence-based recommendations through reports, presentations, and client interactions.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality outputs within programme and budget constraints.
- Proven experience of technical leadership, team management, and mentoring of junior engineers and graduates.
- Flexibility to travel between offices and client locations as required, including site visits, surveys, stakeholder meetings, and project delivery activities.
With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging. Find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain talent from a wide range of backgrounds. For greater online accessibility please visit https//www.vercida.com/uk/employers/jacobs to view and access our roles.
As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.